The trend on facebook is to
" change your profile picture on Facebook for a cartoon of a hero of your childhood and invite your friends to do the same ... the target? These days will celebrate WEEK OF THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILDREN! For a week we will not see a single face ... "real" on Facebook but it is an invasion of childhood memories! Come back to us kids!"
Ironically, I came across a clip also on facebook, may the clip speaks more of the celebration:
I was touched after watching this video, feeling very grateful to grow up healthily , now a young lady. I have a family who loves me , completing my degree in less than 12 months time and most importantly I never had to worry about my next meal and where to hide my myself to be safe, just like the little girl in the clip.
The cruelty of the man firing and the willingness of the photographer to allow all of it to happened, does this innocent little girl deserve all these? Whats wrong with adults nowadays?
As we celebrate the WEEK OF THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILDREN. Maybe its not all about following the trend on social networks , watching clips, giving out donation and all. Maybe its time for us "grown ups" to think about the essential.
For the past 22 years, some of the very short years of life, I've came across some of the extreme in children. Bare in mind, the some of examples bellow may not be found as far as places like Afghanistan, Bosnia, China etc, most of it are actually as close as some of the kids next door :
- Bruises on their little hands and feet, from where?? Mom and dad? or even some uncle that stays with them ? - kindergarten kids
- sexuality abused by the "uncle" in the welfare home that i stay.- by a 4 years old girl
- "I heard daddy have a girlfriend , mommy shouts at daddy. " - by a 6 years old girl
- "After Chinese tuition , i have to go to English tuition , then i got swimming class, i also got Ballet class, speech and drama ..... i eat my lunch in the car and i nap at my mommy's office" - by a six year old girl
- " You stupid girl, why are you so silly? how many times do i have to tell you...." a mother shouted at her 4 years old girl.
- 10 year old girl got rapped by her bus driver - Quite a big news on the newspaper not too long ago . I remembered in primary school, the bus driver is some of the best person to trust.
- Child labor, a day of wage lower than 1 USD? Also forced to stay together. Do they still remember their parents?
- Increase in obesity in children? People are too rich? food company making money of out children?
- Increase in depression and suicidal cases in children as young as 10 ? Sorry mom, i didn't get the A that you want..
- Young girls are forced to stop schooling after the age of 10. For what? to get married and be "productive"
- Remember all the scenes in the movie "slumdog millionaire" ?
Of course, the list will go on and on and on and on till next year. So, when it comes to next year, will there be new entries and the list will still go on till the following year? Maybe explaining to a child of "what is your right ?" will be a bit hard, but ask ourselves, do they deserve all this treatment? Do they need to go through all these to to become a better person?
Or are we "grownups" just too selfish to use them for fame and profit? Just like the adults in the clip?
Remember when we were kids, we hated so much when adults forced us to do things that we seriously dislike? Looking at other kids and wonder why do i not have as much fun they have?
Worst still, some "grownups" even subconsciously influence kids that "doing this or that" is actually wrong and doing "what i say" is actually right. I'm sure you would agree that if you were a kid, getting all these from the "grownups" is terrible. Having the maturity you have now, you would fight back. So much so that time has changed, i'm sure kids nowadays would still think the same.
Hence, my concept of celebrating this year of WEEK OF THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILDREN is simply just to give them what they deserve, the rights will come next. They deserve to be loved, healthy and to be educated, they shouldn't be worrying like an adult at such young age.
Remember that we were once a child.
And look at us now, all grown up and well off.
Maybe its time to be nice to the kids now, so that later they'll be as good or better than what we are now.
Tell me, What is your concept for this year??
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